Wednesday, 20 November 2013

Styling A Cashmere Sweater For AW13 | Outfit For A Business Meeting

This is the second part of my Styling A Cashmere Sweater For AW13 post featuring my beautifully soft coral boyfriend sweater from Pure Collection. Yesterday I showed how I styled it for a family birthday party outfit with a cute white skirt and boots, and today it's all about office chic. I needed something to wear to a business meeting and knew that the coral cashmere sweater would be smart and colourful - pairing a bright colour with business-like grey, black and white would hopefully make a great impression without appearing too formal and stuffy!
The trousers are exceptionally old (I'm talking more than 10 years), but as part of a suit they've stood the test of time and have given me years of wear. Instead of statement jewellery I went for a crisp white shirt under the sweater (a white collar peeking out of knitwear always looks smart), a bold black and white check coat and my statement-making Asos red patent brogues (how beautifully do they go with the coral?!).I'm so pleased I chose to get the sweater in 'Winter Coral'; I think it may just be my signature colour. With today's neutrals (black, white and grey) and the bright red, it's another winner of a colour combination, like yesterday's coral, purple and white. As I no longer work in an office full time, I'd somewhat missed getting quite so smartly dressed - office chic used to make up about 80% of my outfits but is now only about 10%, so it made a nice change! Do you have to dress smartly for an office every day? Do you long to break out into jeans more - or like me do you not get the chance to dress in a business-like way very often...?

Wow!! Talk about styling something in two completely different ways!! It took me a moment to realize that this WAS the sweater from yesterday...good job!! I wear scrubs to work every day, so a "business" look is a bit of a foreign concept for me; and I'm honestly not sure if I'd enjoy it or not!! Wearing a uniform can get rather boring...on the other hand, business appropriate attire sometimes seems to me to be somewhat restrictive, as well!! If I could do a fun look like you did here...I think I WOULD enjoy that!!

Thanks Monika... funnily enough I've never had a job where I've had to wear any kind of uniform!! I think it sometimes depends on what kind of office/industry - I've mostly worked in offices with very relaxed dress codes, so it was a case of "anything goes" as long as it was fairly smart :)

What an unusual and attractive combination. Yes your coral sweater is lovely and (surprise to me) goes so well with the awesome red shoes. Love your black and white coat (it has Greetje written on it, did you see that?). The trousers I would have made tighter, but that is perhaps because I am very much into skinnies at the moment.Greetje

Thanks Greetje... I think I've kept the trousers simply because being loose, they're extremely comfortable yet are still smart - and to be honest I prefer skinnies too but I'm not that bothered about them being less on-trend! Sitting in a long meeting means I have to be comfy ;)

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